sshkit VS Chef

Compare sshkit vs Chef and see what are their differences.

sshkit

A toolkit for deploying code and assets to servers in a repeatable, testable, reliable way. (by capistrano)

Chef

Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale (by chef)
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sshkit Chef
2 2
1,114 7,458
0.4% 0.5%
6.4 9.5
12 days ago 6 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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sshkit

Posts with mentions or reviews of sshkit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-17.
  • Zero downtime deploy using puma & capistrano
    2 projects | /r/rails | 17 Nov 2021
    You could try adapting the example in the sshkit readme and override the deploy:restart task to do nothing and then either throw it as an after hook somewhere or run it independently after the deploy.

Chef

Posts with mentions or reviews of Chef. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sshkit and Chef you can also consider the following projects:

Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.

Puppet - Server automation framework and application

BOSH - Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool

gru - Orchestration made easy with Go and Lua

Logstash - Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data

Rubber - A capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale to various service providers, including EC2, DigitalOcean, vSphere, and bare metal servers.

(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework

CFEngine - CFEngine Community

Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀

rcm - rc file (dotfile) management